Privacy Policy
BodmerFischer Ltd. protects the confidentiality and security of your personal data. We collect, process, and use your personal data in accordance with the content of this privacy policy and the applicable laws, in particular the Swiss Data Protection Act (FADP).
This privacy policy explains how we may collect, process, and use your personal data and what rights you have.
1. Controller
BodmerFischer Ltd., Limmatquai 94, CH-8021 Zurich (hereinafter: “we”), is the Controller within the meaning of the FADP for your personal data that we collect or receive in the course of our business activities. Personal data includes all information relating to a specific or identifiable natural person, such as names, dates of birth, as well as postal, email, and IP addresses.
2. Collection of Data
We obtain personal data directly from you when you contact us via email, telephone, or other communication channels. This includes, among other things, your name, contact details, and information about the role of the data subject in the company or organization for which you or the relevant contacts work or on whose behalf you or they contact us. We may also receive personal data from third parties (e.g., clients, courts, authorities, other law firms, or other advisors). Furthermore, we may obtain some personal data ourselves, for example from registers or other publicly accessible sources.
3. Purpose of Data Use and Basis of Data Processing
We collect and process personal data primarily to provide, document, and invoice our services. Additionally, we use this data to enhance our business relationship with you and to inform you about publications, events, news, services, or products that may be of interest (marketing purposes).
We may process your personal data for the purposes mentioned when:
- it is necessary to fulfill our contractual obligations to you or the company/organization for which you work;
- it is necessary to comply with other legal obligations;
- you have given your consent to the processing of personal data; or
- we or a third party (e.g., one of our clients) has a legitimate interest, and your interests do not override this interest.
4. Data Security
We implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal data, both in electronic and physical form, from loss, destruction, access, alteration, or disclosure by unauthorized persons. Access to our offices is controlled and monitored by video cameras, and personal data and other information are subject to strict confidentiality obligations.
Please note that we use external IT service providers and cloud providers with servers in Switzerland. We also use certain IT services and communication tools that may involve data security risks (e.g., email and video conferencing). It is your responsibility to inform us if you wish for specific security measures to be applied.
If you provide us with personal data concerning a third party (e.g., employees), it is your responsibility to appropriately inform them about the processing by legal service providers (such as us) or other external service providers.
5. Retention Period
We retain your personal data for as long as is necessary for the purposes for which it is processed, as long as there is a legal obligation to retain and document it, or as long as there is an overriding private or public interest in doing so.
6. Disclosure of Personal Data
To achieve the purposes mentioned in this privacy policy, it may be necessary for us to disclose personal data to external service providers, clients, counterparties, other lawyers, authorities, courts, and/or business partners with whom we may need to coordinate the provision of our services (e.g., insurance companies).
In our area of responsibility, we process personal data in Switzerland. However, we may transfer personal data to recipients who process personal data in other countries, including those that do not provide a level of data protection comparable to Swiss law. In such cases, we will proceed on the basis of consent or standard contractual clauses, or if necessary, for the performance of a contract or the enforcement of legal claims.
7. Privacy Policy as Information
This privacy policy is an information regarding the type, scope, and purpose of the use of personal data by BodmerFischer Ltd. No consent from our clients, their employees, or other contact persons is required for this privacy policy.
8. Modification of the Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy at any time. The current version is available on our website. We recommend that you regularly review our privacy policy on our website.
9. Your Rights
With regard to the personal data, we collect, process, and use, you have various rights. These include, in particular, the right to access the personal data stored about you and the purposes of the data processing, the right to rectification, deletion, or restriction of the processing of your personal data, the right to object to processing, the right to file a complaint with a competent supervisory authority, and the right to data transfer and data portability. Additionally, you may revoke any consent given for the processing of your personal data at any time.
Please note, however, that these rights are subject to conditions and exceptions. To the extent legally permissible or required, we may deny requests to exercise these rights. In particular, we may be allowed or required to continue retaining or processing personal data for legal reasons, even after a request for deletion or restriction. Similarly, we may be allowed or required to retain or process personal data despite the withdrawal of consent if there is a legitimate interest or other legal basis for doing so.
If you wish to exercise these rights or have any questions, please contact us by email (info@bodmerfischer.ch) or by post at:
BodmerFischer Ltd.
Data Protection
Limmatquai 94
CH-8021 Zurich
Switzerland
November 2024